The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from. Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

- anything wrong Win the accounts, the
jumble occurring simply from incompe-
tence.
IT is reported that the British Govern.
rnent intends to prosecute Michael Davitt
and Mr.. Joseph Richard Cox National
ist), member OF Parliament for East
Clare, for their conduct, IN melting the
Bodylze tenants to resist eviction.
GENERAL HOWARD has informed the War
Department that only sixteen Apache
warriors have left the San Carlos agency,
and that the others are not in sympathy
with them.
SECRETARY LAMAR has rescinded his
order of March 20, 1886, Withdrawing from
the operation of the public land laws
fractional range Al in the State OF Col
orado for the purposes of National cattle
trail.
The committee in charge Of the petition
70 Rome for the restoration of DR.. Nc
Glynn To his parish in New York, an
nounce that the movement has been
abandoned at DR.. McGlynn's request.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, since his return
from Saranac, drives out to Oak View at
half past four in the afternoon, regales
himself for an hour or more with country
air and returns to the White House at
seven where he eats a solitary dinner
TnE Crown Prince Frederick William
Of Germany arrived in England on the
18th.
General Sheridan for the garrisoning Of
Fort Meyer, near Washington. The post
will be commanded by Major Lewis II.
Carpenter, OF tho Fifth Cavalry, who is
stationed at Fort Supply, L T.
ADvIoEs from Rio dc Janeiro represent
Dom Pedro, Emperor Of Brazil, as suffer
ing from dangerous attack Of diabetes
and lying in critical condition.
THE State Department has received,
through the British Minister at Washing
ton, an invitation to this Government to
take part in the Centennial international
Exhibition, which is to be held at Mel
bourne, Australia in 1888, and will be
kept open for SIX months. Ample space
will be reserved for American exhibitors
SPAIN proposes to let all Cubans vote
by the payment Of forty dollars each for
the privilege.
on the 18th the one hundred and nine
teenth annual commencement of Brown
University at Providence, r. l., was held.
The degree OF Bachelor of Arts was con-
ferred upon thirty-eight men. Degrees
were conferred as follows: Doctor Of
Divinity, Frederick G.. Wright; Doctor of
Laws, Isaac G. Wilson, of Chicago, and
James p. Boyce, Of Louisville, Ky.
OK the 18th the Princess of w ales and
her family visited the Wild West show,
together with a score of foreign royalties,
all Of whom rode in the Deadwood coach,
the Princess being seated on the box by
the sde Of Buffalo BILL who drove the
horses attached to the vehicle.
UNITED STATES CoNsUL-G ENERAL RAINEs
1t Berlin has sent an able report to
the Government on German trade and
manufactures.
QUEEN VICTORIA is reported to be very
much alarmed over the alleged discovery
OF dynamite plot to be carried out dur
ing her jubilee.
JAMES G. BLAINE arrived in England on
the 10th. He declined to attend the jubilee
banquet at Southampton.
THE President has made the following
appointments; John G. Nelson, of Min
nesota, to be receiver Of public moneys at
Fergus Falls, MINI; James Greeley, OF
Minnesota, to be register Of the land Of
fee at Red Wood Falls, MINI.
DIR. MACKENZIE examined the German
Grown Princes throat on the 10Th. The
doctor reported that he found that the
fungus growth had not enlarged and that
there were no signs of congestion.
The social event OF the season at Otta-
wa, Ont, was Lord Lansdownes State
ball on the night of the 18th. Six hundred
prominent people attended, but a notice
able feature was the cons picuous absence
of Irish citizens
MISS ANNIE Brooks, a handsome young
bruno tie twenty three years old, wholives
in East Orange, N ", awoke the other
morning rich. A wealthy uncle, Patrick
Brooks, died last March, leaving her SOL
OOO The young heiress has been working
In a silk factory and in a dressmaking
shop 70 earn her living.
THE returns from the local elections in
Wisconsin, which are now all received,
show that several thousand women voted
for city, village and township officers
under the new law which enables them to
do so at any election whore officers are
chosen who have any connection with the
schools
EVENTS have recently trans pired in Mil
waukee, Wis, which promise to clear up
the mystery surrounding the abduction
OF Willie Dickinson, of Commonwe alth,
Wis, six years ago. Tho boy, who was TX
years cid at the time, was kidnapped while
on his way homa from school on the even
ing or November 1, 1881
TEE President has withdrawn his as
sent to the action of Secretary Endicott
and Adiutant- General Drum in the matter
Of returning captured Confederate flags
30 the Southern States, having discovered
that Congressional warrant was neces-
sary.
IT is reported that Sir John Macdonald,
the Canadian Premier, has threatened to
resign II the House of Commons adopts
the resolution in favor Of total prohibit
tion.
A STRANGELY sensational story is
brought TO London by British OH Ger re-
Car Is constantly "biling drunk" fire.
Quently in the most frenzied state OF Jim
jams, and that he will soon drink himself
TO death, unless some high Official kills
him for insults and indignities offered
when on one OF his whirlwnd sprees.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN arrived on the 18th at
Queenstown, and was given an enthusi-
Rstic reception.
RESOLUTION of impeachment Of = tate
Auditor Walker was introduced in the
Missouri House of Representatives on
the nth, and il was set for argument on
Wednesday, the 22d.
MINISTER MCLANE has demanded OF the
French Government the release OF an
American citizen confined in a French
lunatic asylum.
DR ROSWELL DWIGHT HITCHCocK,
president OF the Union Theological Semin-
ary Of New York, died at MS summer res
idence az South Somerset, Mass, on the
night Of the 10th, OF peritonitis.
NINE. FURsoH-MADI was granted a YER
dict for 50, 1o3 and costs in her suit atNew
York against Charles f. Locke, of the
America Opera Company, on the 18th.
There was no defense.
JouN p. BENITz, well known through
cut the country as a baritone in various
opera companies, died ut his home in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the nth, OF b rights
disease Of the kidneys. The deceased
was in the forty-ffth year Of his age.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the 18th, while a number Of men
were examining a blasting charge which
failed in RAIN & Kauhman's s stone quarry,
near Ieosport, Pa, il exploded with great
force. fatally injuring Francis Kaufman
and Phillip Schaefer and severely injur-
ing three others.
THE TRIAL Of Jessie d. Brown, colored,
at Westminster, Nd, for the murder Of
her infant child. was terminated on tn 3
l4th BY death The woman went into a
decline after her incarceration and WAS
far gone with consumption when the trial